HYGIA Olive leaf Tea (wild olives)
Olive leaf tea picked exclusively from wild olive trees in the Messinian mountains. Air dried and hand processed.
	For your healths sake ! Olive leaf tea has been used since thousands of years. The antioxidative impact of Oleuropeine can linger various discomforts. Read more further down
	We offer our tea in packages of 100, 500 und 1000 grams. Please contact us for larger quantities. HYGIA is Greek and means health. That's why we gave our tea this name. Due to the increasing demand for our olive leaf tea, we are pleased to announce new prices for our tea as per Mai 31st 2011: 100g   :  €   9.00 500g   :  € 41.00 1000g :  € 77.00 (including postage & packing)

Active ingredients of olive leaves

The entire olive tree comprises bioactive ingredients; so called iridoids.
One of the most important ones is oleuropeine which has antibacterial, antibiotic and antimycotic effects. So, this substance works against bacteria, viruses and fungi.
This is, of course, up front important for the tree, for without this, it never would grow sometimes older than a thousand years.
Compared to the stemm, the roots and the fruit, the leaves comprise about 3000 times the amount of oleuropeine. They also remain on the branches for about five years before falling off. During this time they are vital for the survival of the tree as a whole. This is also the explanation, why the concentration of oleuropeine is that much higher.

Already in Ancient Egypt the effects of olives and their leaves were well known. The egyptians must also have known aboubt the atibacterial effect, for they used olive extracts when embalming their deceased.

It is also documented, that  Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179), a famous german abbess healer, used oliveleave extract to linger her patients arthritis and indigestions.

The first time oliveleave tea was used on a broad basis was at the beginning of the 19th century when Spain was at war with France. Fever among the soldiers was of major concern and the spanish army doctors started to use oliveleave tea to lower it with great success. The spanish soldiers recovered a lot faster and could get back to the front than their french counterparts.

In the mid 19th century oliveleave tea was used the first time in England where people returning from the colonies suffered from severe malaria. There, too, this remedy lingered the symptoms of this perfidious disease. It was also in that time, when the first scientific report was written about the effectiveness of oliveleave substances

Since the late 60s of the 20th century science began to force more indepth research about the substances of the olive tree.

Treatable diseases

Olive leaf tea is lifting the general wellbeing and it has been observed that patients got into more balanced moods. The following diseases have been successfully treated with extracts of oliveleaves:

• Influenza
• Cold
• Meningitis
• Epstein-Barrvirus
• Encephalitis
• Herpes I und II,
• Herpesvirus 6 und 7
• Shingles (herpes zoster)
• Chronic fatigue
• Hepatitis B
• Pneumonia
• Tuberculosis
• Gonorrhoea
• Malaria
• Dengue fever
• Bakteraemia
• seriouse Diarrhoea
• Blood poisoning (sepsis)
• Lyme-Borreliosis
• Allergic asthma
• Infections on teeth, ears, and urethra as well as
  after surgical treatments.

Due to the abundant amount of chlorophyll, oliveleave tea can be used preventively against coronary diseases and cardiac arrest.
The substances of olive leaves are a true antivirus combination which blocks the virus specific system within infected cells. Therefore they improve the cellular protection system of the organism!
Above that, the substances do reduce reconvalescence time. An effect which conventional antibiotics do not have.
Olive leaf tea improves the immune system and prevents from sleeping disorders.

Olive leaf tea is an alternative medicine.
It does however not replace medical treatment.

Harvest

Our olive leaf tea consists of 100% of leaves of the wild olive trees of our region.

By carefully cutting the sometimes strongly ramified trees, we help them getting more air.

After 10 to 14 days, the dry leaves are carefully separated from the branches.

To collect and separate 100 gramms of leaves it takes about two hours.